WAR HEROINE DEAD

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 144, 14 March 1931, Page 7

WAR HEROINE DEAD

Aided Soldiers to Escape CLEVER SPY ACTIVITIES (Rec. March 13, 5.5 pan.) London, March 12. The death is announced of Miss Annie Scott-James, aged 56, a lady who was mentioned by Field-Marshal Haig’s dispatches for gallant and distinguished service in the field in recognition of heroic deeds similar to those which brought Nurse Cavell to execution. Miss Scott-James was a teacher of languages in Brussels in 1914, and, despite German surveillance, communicated valuable information to the British Intelligence staff which gave her an honorary post. She assisted homeward a hundred British soldiers who had escaped from the Germans. First, she hid them in her flat and provided them with disguises as peasants, and half a dozen were gathered. She led them on an eighty-mile march to the Dutch frontier, and provided them with rubber pads to enable them to cross the electrified wire barrier. Miss Scott-James, speaking of her experience, recalled agonising moments in listening until the escaped men were clear away. Despite German precautions she only lost one. He was electrocuted. She also smuggled food to hungry prisoners in German camps.